Sample sentences for INCIPIENT

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Definition

beginning to come into existence

She dealt with her problem with alcohol while it was still in an incipient state.

incipient = beginning to come into existence

WILLY [stopping the incipient argument, to HAPPY]:
Arthur Miller -- Death of a Salesman

incipient = beginning to come into existence

Smasher, the incipient shepherd—
John Steinbeck -- The Red Pony

incipient = beginning to come into existence

In this respect, it seemed to me, his incipient clinic was already a success.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
In my incipient craziness, a knot in the tree resembled the head of a man.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
And the water, because of incipient flooding, wasn't safe to drink when we got there.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Yet it was not exactly the solicitude of an incipient father.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
I look at our hands, her smooth one, the nails pale moons, mine with its tattered cuticles, its skin of incipient toad.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
The incipient panic that had started a few hours earlier had driven them to the brittle edge of riot.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
This bore some resemblance to incipient rigour, and was accompanied by a marked sinking of the pulse.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The shock and the incipient pain had partly sobered him.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
They represented qualities that she felt and despised in herself—incipient meanness, conceit, cowardice, and petty dishonesty.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
'Let me go to bed, then,' answered the boy, shrinking from Catherine's salute; and he put his fingers to remove incipient tears.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
INCIPIENT RIOT QUELLED AT 47TH AND HALSTED.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
The man bent, puckered his lips, and blew on the incipient fire, gentle as a mother kissing her child, and the sparks sprang into lambent flames.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
It was now the season of incipient preparation for dinner.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
When he removed his boots he discovered incipient frostbite on several toes.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
Thus the incipient attachment was stifled down.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
There is nothing so inspiring in life as the sight of a legitimate ambition, no matter how incipient.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
Hugh Miller gave something which resembled an incipient smile.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men

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